GNU bug report logs - #6146
23.1; Problem with vc-next-action

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rrt <at> sc3d.org

Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 17:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 6146-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1; Problem with vc-next-action
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:00:20 -0500

rrt <at> sc3d.org wrote:

> 1. In the prompt mentioned above, (y or n) needs a space before it.

Fixed.

> 2. The file that was diagnosed as read only was not read-only: it had
>    perms -rw-r-----, and emacs was running under the owner’s uid.
>
> 3. The error mentioned above. I get the following backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)

The only explanation I can come up with for 2 and 3 is that you somehow
lost execute permissions on the directory. Anyway, I made it give a more
explicit error if it fails to make the file writable. The user will have
to sort out whatever the problem is in such a case.
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